HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 2008-077CITY OF PLYMOUTH
RESOLUTION 2008-077
APPROVING A VARIANCE TO ALLOW 57.7 PERCENT IMPERVIOUS SURFACE
COVERAGE WHERE 25 PERCENT IS ALLOWED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
A 144 SQUARE FOOT PORCH ADDITION FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 15620
40TH AVENUE NORTH (2008004)
WHEREAS, an application has been filed by Valet Building Services, which requests
approval of an impervious surface coverage variance to permit constriction of a porch
addition for property legally described as follows:
Lot 7, Block 2, Plymouth Creek 2" a Addition, Hennepin County, Minnesota.
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission has reviewed the request at a duly called public
meeting and recommends approval.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA, that it should and hereby does approve the
request by Valet Building Services for an impervious surface coverage variance to allow
constriction of a home addition for property located at 15620 40t1' Avenue North, subject
to the following conditions:
1. This resolution approves a variance to allow 57.7 percent impervious surface
coverage where a maximum of 25 percent is allowed, in accordance with the plans
and application received by the City on January 16, 2008, except as amended by this
resolution.
2. The 12 -foot -by -12 -foot porch addition shall be finished to match the existing home.
3. The impervious surface coverage variance is approved with the finding that the
applicable variance standards are met. Specifically:
a. The subject property is unit lot and contains 3,307 square feet, allowing for
approximately 827 square feet of impervious surface coverage. However,
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because the property was platted as a "unit" and "base" lot subdivision, there is
common land owned by the HOA that allows for storm water infiltration,
including a retention pond. Therefore, the impact of the impervious surface
coverage for the subject property is reduced due to the common land and storm
water pond that was developed as part of the Plymouth Creels 2" a Addition.
Additionally, the subject property was developed under a PUD created prior to
the application of the maximum impervious surface restrictions.
b. The applicant's home was constricted in 1983 and was originally part of a
planned unit development (PUD). Because it was part of a PUD, design
guidelines were approved different from those in the shoreland management
overlay district.
c. The request is not based exclusively upon a desire to increase value or income
potential of the property.
d. The hardship is caused by the Zoning Ordinance and has not been self-created.
The existing home was constricted as part of a PUD, not according to the
design guidelines in the shoreland management overlay district.
e. Granting of the variance would not be detrimental to the public welfare or
injurious to other land or improvements in the neighborhood.
f. The variance would not impair an adequate supply of light and air to adjacent
property, nor would it substantially increase the congestion of the public
streets, or increase the danger of fire, or endanger the public safety, or
substantially diminish or impair property values within the neighborhood.
g. The porch addition is modest in size and represents the minimum action
necessary to alleviate the hardship.
4. A building permit for the addition shall be obtained prior to construction.
5. Any subsequent phases or expansions are subject to required reviews and approvals
per Ordinance provisions.
6. This approval shall expire one year after the date of approval, unless the property
owner or applicant has substantially started constriction of the project, or unless the
landowner or applicant has received prior approval from the City to extend the
expiration date for up to one additional year, as regulated under Section 21030.06 of
the Zoning Ordinance.
Adopted by the City Council on March 11, 2008.
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STATE OF MINNESOTA)
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) SS.
The undersigned, being the duly qualified and appointed City Clerk of the City of
Plymouth, Minnesota, certifies that I compared the foregoing resolution adopted at a
meeting of the Plymouth City Council on March 11, 2008, with the original thereof on
file in my office, and the same is a correct transcription thereof.
WITNESS my hand officially as such City Clerk and the Corporate seal of the City this
day of
City Clerk